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Smyrna times., 1887-03-02
Experiments Concerninr Dice.tion.

\ DR.. Chudnowski recently expert
mented on twelve Russian soldiers with a
view to discovering the effect of cold APP
phcatiOns to the epigastrium on the ra-
pidity of digestion. Each soldier was re-
galed heartily; his epigastrium was prop
erly refrigerated and the exciting contest
began. Unfortunately for lovers Of the
weed, the competitors were divided into
smokers and nOn-smOkerS The rival
teams digested their very hardest, but the
non-smOkers Outdistanced the others by
the space of one hour.-New York sun.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-02
stuart, the Portrait Painter.

Gilbert Stuart had long been fashion
able artist in London, when he de
termined to return to his native land that
he might paint the portrait Of the one
man he admired, George Washington.
In England he had hobnobbed with
princes and dukes, but when he entered
the room where Washington was waiting
to give him sitting ne was embarrassed
1t was the first and only time said
he, THAT ever felt awe in the presence
of a fellOw-man. Youths Companion.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-02
For the Smyrna Times.
Kenton.

Our Sunday School will give an enter
tainment OR Wednesday evening. March
9th, to mark its missionary anniversary.
All are invited Admission free.
Mr.. VIM. b. Jones, who lives near the
village is confined to his home on account
of i'll health
AT the hour which Kenton Lyceum
met on Saturday evening. heavy rain
was falling. but fair sized audience was
in attendance The question concerning
nature and art was discussed. and the
judgement favored art ladies being
judges. Resolved, that capital pun
ishment should be abolished" was the
subject selected for the next debate
ALLEN.
KENToN, DEL, March 1st, 1886
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Personal.

Rev. f. E. White went to Red Lion
on Sunday, where he was a former
pastor, to assistin nreopening the church
Olin l. Hough, Of Philadelphia, is
spending a few days home.
Mrs. VIM. w. Maree, who was
stricken with paralysis on Wednesday
night last, is considerably better.
Mrs. Robt. D. Hoflecker, who was
seriously paralysed on the date of our
last issue, and whose condition was so
critical all of last week. has been re-
lieved the past several days of the worst
features, with indications of improve
ment that are hopeful.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-02
Accounted For.

Friend-That humorist Of yours writes
as though he had lots of experience,
EditOr-YOu think soy
YES. He must be a brave man, too. I
never saw such dandy mOther-in- law jokes
as he cracks off. wouldn't do it for a
farm"
I'm! The young man isn't married,
you know"
'Ah-h-hw-New York Mail and Fix.
press
Smyrna times., 1887-03-02
The Largest Engine.

An engine in use in the zinc mines near
Freidensville, Pa, is fed by sixteen boil
ers, and is of 5000 horse power. It is
said to be the largest one in the world.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-02
Wrong Foot Foremost.

You got out of bed wrong foot fotE
most, scolds the mother at the freu9i
child. ShedOes not know what the wofus
mean. But if she could trace the saylns
oack 5000 years she would find II Orisl
mated precisely where the picture given y
Christ Of the judgment day came lrVin'
the right was associated, In all antiquiis!, IVY,
with good luck and the left with Daa 6o-. ~.
tune. To put the left leg out OF bed nlSs iISs
was bad sign. suppose OF all tnips lllst
our good parsons would protest ag'lnS.
Delng charged with worshiping the sum ~
yet the custom Of looking upwaru ~ -
prayer originated in the worship OF INC
day god.--Globe- Democrat,
Smyrna times., 1887-03-02
Wealth of the United s,a,es.

The aggregate wealth of the United
states is now estimated at about $4S, 900, d,
VOO,OOO, but the taxable property Of the
country IS only little more than one.
thlrd OF this amount. brooklyn Eagle
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GBe Sn.gylt.ra Jines.
S. - sz DeI.,
Wednesday 4AlssEn99n, Mar. 2, 1887.

THE "TIME3" >" very Wednesday
afternoon by RCk: '.5EER, Editor and
Proprietor, at Smyrna, Del.
TERMS-SUBsCRIPTION-O One year 81 100 IN advance
OF $3.50 If not paid till the end of the year No
paper discontinued until all arrears are paid
only at the option of the Publisher.
ADVERTISEMENT will be inserted at the rate
of Seven Cents a line for the first insertion; sub
sequent insertions Three-and-a-half cents. A
liberal discount made to quarterly, ,semi-annual
and yearly advertisers.
OBITUARY NOTICES will be charged Five Cents
per line.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-02
nm nrn,rth nf Enrth Morms.

put an earth worm in two and place ~ ~
two halves in a flower pot with earth ~, AsP:
constantly moist, and IN less than 80
you will find two whole worms. a -
VIII have grown on the half that hai -
tail, while a tail will have grown y"
half that had none.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-02
Wilkes Patchen

I travel during the Season Of 1887 In Kent and
Ne" Castle Counties, beginning March 18th.
WILKES PATCHEN is amahogany bay. stands
II, hands high, weighes 1850 pounds can trot i'm
24O, and has two white hind feet
PEDIGREE.
WILKES PATCHEN was sired by George
wilkes; dam, mare sired by e. NJ Patcben
George Wilkes was sired by RySdyke'S Hamble-
tonian dam. by q. N, Patchen. This horse EN-.
braces the blood Of Patcheu in his dam and grand
uam. o. NJ. Patchen was sired by CaSsiuS NJ
Clay Henry Clay Andew jackson. Young BGshaw
imported or Grand BaShRw through his dam TO
imported Trustee, American Eclipse Imported
Diomed and Messenger.
iEkMS.-Sl1 for the Season; mares not proving
charge. NV VI
JAMES SIMPSON.
mar 2-lW GEO. II COLE
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can NO % nal who lives by his daily wagss
has sea.,r. anoru . 10 throw up a job until ne
Smyrna times., 1887-03-02

When Baby was sick, we gave her CASTORIA
When she was a Child, she cried for CASTORIA
When she became Miss, she clung to CASTORIA
When she had Children, she gave them CASTA
Side Bracket and Extension Lamps
at J. B. COOper's.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-02
The Annual Moving.

Yesterday was moving day." and
everybody who has had one experience
in an annual moving knows that it is
something more than a holiday job,
yet there are some people, judging
from their frequent changes, who en-
joy it. 1t is safe to say however, that
there are very few changes without
good and sufficient reason.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-02

Job work neatly done at the TIMES oefF,,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21
FIRE DEPARTMENT spRJNKL1Ne.

The proposition to utilize the fire depart
ment in sprinkling the streets meets with
general favor. This can be done without
weakening the department or taking any
risks. The assumption that it cannot be is
purely gratuitous. The department consists
Of six engine companies, four hose-reel COM
panies, two chemical companies and two hook
and-ladder companies, besides officers. Nobody
will claim that the men are overworked They
would all be healthier if they had more exer-
else. They do their duty but their duties
are light. Their pay runs all the time, and
their duties come but seldom. They are not
overworked. A detail of men could be made
every day during the dry season to use the
water-plugs. They do it regularly in front of
all the engine-houses, and there is no reason
why they should not do it elsewhere. The
idea that the city would inevitably
take fire and burn up, in the alb
sence of few freinen from their
posts, is supremely silly. Probably not
a week passes that one or more men from
every company are not given day off for
recreation or to attend to private business.
They can always be spared to join in process
sions, parades, celebrations, ETC., but when it
is proposed to utilize some of them for street
sprinkling purposes the cry is raised that it.
would ruin the department, endanger the
city, etc. That is all bosh. 1t is not neces-
sary to hedge fremen around with an awful
circle. The department, efficient as it I'M
doubtedly is, is expensive feature of the
city government, and there is no reason why
the people should not get out of it all the
benefit possible short of actually Gripping it.
1t might be- found advisable to make some
temporary additions to the force or employ a
few substitutes during the sprinklng season.
That would be matter for later considera-
ton. The point we make is that the depart
ment can be utilized in some way for the
purpose, and ought to be-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

about the city in clouds it bears with it the
means of propagating contagious maladies
Indeed, it is not unlikely that the remarkable
prevalence of several such diseases at this
time, among children in the city, was brought
about, to some extent by the winds that
blew" during the first half of this month, car
rying with them the penetrating and concen-
-trated essence of yileness from back street
and filthy alley For the sake of those who
live on the. main thoroughfares, as we'll as
those on the side streets, all streets in the
city should be sprinkled.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

Mr.. Bancroft does not contemplate a history
of Mr.. Folks administration as separate
work, but there were events shaped during its
duration of which he purposes specially to
treat, as, for instance, the acquisition Of Cali
fornla 1t was also while MIR. Bancroft was
Secretary of the Navy that the United States
Naval Academy was founded. All of Presi-
dent Folks private papers and many official
documents were taken by Mrs. Polk when
they left Washington in 1849, and it was to
examine these that the venerable historian
visited Nashville
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

THE decision of the new management of the
Lake Erie & Western railroad to locate their
general offices and headquarters here con-
firms hope that has been entertained in
business circles for some time. So far as the
company is concerned, it is actuated of
course, by considerations of its own advantage
and convenience, this being the most central
and available point for their headquarters
The event, however, is none the less of inter-
est to the city The location here of their
general offices is valuable acquisition to
business interests and a gratifying sign of the
growing Importance Of indianapolis as rail-
road center
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

MAYOR DENNY remarked, on Monday
night, that if the Council could find au-
thority for and devise means for doing the
street-sprinkling by contract, he supposed
carts enough might be secured by the mid
die of summer to accomplish the work.
Large bodies move slowly; but there is really
no reason why the City Council should not
proceed more expeditiously than the Mayor
thinks possible. The committee should re-
port next Monday, and the Council take
immediate action. Should the decision be
favorable, contracts should be let without
delay. The men who undertake to do the
work can have their carts in operation before
the middle of summer if they are given a
rsek's time. Everybody is not SO slow as
the Council and city officers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

MASSACHUSETTS Republicans are not at all
alarmed by the administration threats of
capturing that State. Hon. Henry Cabot
Lodge, in speech before Republican club
in Boston, a few days ago, referred to the
combination as one in which the administra-
ton will contribute the Offices, the free
traders and the Cleveland men the money,
and the candidates and the Democrats
the votes. He added: at is a formid-
able combination, and we have got to
meet it prepared for hard fight We will
have an opportunity of converting the major
ity of 10, 900 which we polled last year into a
majority of 25, 900. We can re-elect Governor
Ames by that vote" This statement was
loudly cheered. Republican clubs are form
ing throughout the State, and the old party
is putting on its war paint. Massachusetts,
Republicans don't scare worth cent
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

THE Knights Of Labor are losing members
about as fast as they were gaining them a
year ago. During the past week the most
notable withdrawal was that Of the three
hundred shoemakers in the shops of New
York and vicinity, which will be followed by
some 900 others of the craft. This move
ment was caused because men were
ordered to strike when there was nothing to
strike about, and they refused to be dictated
to by master workman who didn't know a
shoe from watch At the meeting where
the formal motion of withdrawal was adopted,
one of the speakers said:
at comes to this that these men must be
curtailed of their power to issue edicts affect
ing men who oppose them in their schemes
/ do not propose that my little ones, like those
of the 'longshoremen, shall be reduced to
want to please the loafers in the Knights of
Labor against whom we now propose to act. "
The leaven of independence will not be
long in leavening the whole lump.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

THE President has been warned, unless he
calls halt in his downward course Of put
riment of the public service, he will lose the
mugwump support He has also received no.
tice from innumerabe Democratic sources
that unless he turns out Republicans at more
rapid rate his chances for another term will
speedily disappear. The two fires between
which the President has been standing for a
considerable length of time have been poked
up lately until they are hot enough to cause
discomfort to fat man.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

IT is understood that the Citizens Street
railway Company has expressed willingness
to furnish free transportation to Crown Hill
to the Journal-no return pass issued, how
postpone acceptance of the offer until it has
got in little more work in behalf of its
fellow.citizens who desire to visit the graves
of their dead and are unable to make the
Journey on foot. The Offer however, is a
fair sample of the insolent ignorance and in
difference that control the street railway
management, and which has so effectually
put a muzzle on the Councils of the CITY,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

To preserve the balance and prevent sus-
picion that the brethren are tired of playing
the mugwump game, the Republicans who
have been mentioned" as possible presiden-
tial candidates are taken up seriatim, and
reasons given why they cannot receive mug
wump support. It is plain that these 4'inde-
pendent" gentlemen have decided that virtue
does not exist outside of their own charmed
circle, and have determined to look to that
quarter for candidate who is good enough
for them. Charl Schurz, George Francis
Train, George William Curtis, and the rest,
will now prepare themselves to be struck by
lightning
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

THE New York Post cannot find language
to express its indignation at the Subordinate
officials of the government who are making
Mr. Clevelands administration a reproach
and by-word among mugwumps. The de-
termination of the Post to lay the blame of
administrative blunders upon every man but
double act of making itself ridiculous, and
causing the President to appear either as
fool or fgure-head. AS a political contor-
ZIONIST the Post is adding to its laurels
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21
system

ONE section of statute passed by the last
Ohio Legislature provides that '.the husband
must support himself, his wife and his minor
children out of his property or by his labor
If he is unable to do so the wife must assist
him so far as she is able" There will be
plenty of husbands in that State who will
make oath that they are unable to support the
family, and then fall back on the law that
compels the wife to assist, as far as she is
able, which means that she will do it ALL Is
it any wonder women want to vote?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE Irish question: Who forged the Parncll
letter?-Chicago journal.
Two of the Northern States that voted for
President observation-disclosures and New Jersey
are in bad way for the Democratic party
- Boston Herald lDem.l
AFTER all isn't VIM. Kissape the Marjorie
Daw of criminal literature! He is too pctur-
esquely interesting character to exist in the
Tiesh.-Louisyille Commercial
IT is q pointed illustration of .he power of free
government when the fendish Anarchist. Herr
Most can come to Philadelphia, avow his policy
and purpose to overthrow all order and govern
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

THE New York Post announces that the
mugwump vote in 1888 will probably 90 to
the candidate who promises to be most ear
policy. This is by no means equivalent to
saying they will not support Cleveland.
Didn't he promise, in 1884, everything they
could desire in that line in letter to George
William Curtis and others9 With the practice
he has had there is nothing to hinder the
making of even m ore prolific promises than
before
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

ALL THE STREETS OR NONE.

The suggestion has been made by number
of persons more OF less interested in the dust
question, that if the city cannot bear the ex-
pense of sprinkling all the streets, that the
Council might, at least, effect an arrange
ment whereby the dust could be laid on several
of the principal streets, including the main
business thoroughfares, at public cost. This
is precisely the thing which the Council
any sprinkling can be done by the city let all
the streets be sprinEled or none. There is no
place in indianapolis where the dust is a more
intolerable nuisance than on many of the by
streets. where only here an there an occupant
of one of the little cottages feels able to afford
the luxury of hydrant water and garden hose
or the more expensive interest in the min
istrations of a private sprinkling cart.
These people appreciate the blessings
of cleanliness aud pure air as well as the
residents upon more important thorough
fares, and suffer even more from the all
pervading clouds of dust since, as a rule,
their grounds are less spacious. 1t would be
manifest injustice to enact sprlnkling ordi-
nance which would chiefly benefit those who
can afford to pay for the work, and would give
other citizens no relief. A like principle
applies to those crowded streets and alleys
upon which live that class of residents which
has little regard for the virtue which is next
to goodness. The dust which arises from any
street is simply pulverized filth, but from
these quarters it is pre.eminently SO. Borne
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

Gas had not been struck
at Rrightwood.
The street-car company
had not reformed.
x-Warden Howard had
not been arrested.
DIR. Harrison had not
been removed.
Green Smith had not re-
turned that two dol
lars.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

Mr.. BANCROFT the historian, now in his
eighty-eighth year. is pretty old man TO be
cutting out new work for himself, but it seems
he is. His recent visit to Nashville was for
the purpos. y collecting material for a history
of the adu =, stiation of President James K
Polk, in whose Cabinet Mr.. Bancroft was
Secretary of the Navy. And, by the way, he
is the last surviving member of that Cabinet.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

IT is creeping over the face of nature with
great rapidity that the studied effort of the
railways to bring the interstate bill
into popular disfavor has been greatly overdone.
Ifsome one Of the roads could be brought up be-
fore the commission with round turn, it
might result in great public benefit.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

The substitute" for the Crosby high
license BILL which has been introduced into
the New York Legislature, shows signs of
having been drawn up in the parlors of sa-
loon, and, if passed, will undoubtedly receive
Governor Hills signature. A scale of licenses
which slides from $500 fee paid by the larg-
est New York saloon to $50 from the village
doggery, can hardly be called "high-license'
sysfAm
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

editor replied as follows: s'If only one OK,
good way would be to hoist him. by means of
long chain attached to his tail, to the top of
pole forty feet from the ground. Then hoist
him by rope tied TO his horns to another POLE
Then descend to his back fveton pile
driver and if that don't break him let him start
country newspaper, and trust people for SUBJ
scrption. One Of the two WAYS will do it sure"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

THE American Opera Company succeeded
in getting through to San Francisco, in spite
Of the interstate law and high rates, and is
now flooding that city with the concord of
sweet sounds. At one time it looked as if
San Francisco would have to get it's melody
by long haul from Omaha.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21
The Difference Between Them.

ST. LOUIS F0st- Dispatch.
Judge Cooley declares that the Interstate
Commission has no power TO ''construe, inter
pref and apply the law by preliminary judg-
ment" That is because Judge Cooley is merely
lawyer and not freight agent A great
many freight agents without having ever studied
a law book have construed applied and inter-
preted the law, not only by preliminary Judg-
ment, but frequently without judgment.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

IT is but brief time since a word deroga-
tory to their then idolized Cleveland excited a
rage in the mugwump mind only equaled by
that aroused in the breast of a turkey cock
by the waving of a red rag. That this fiery
disposition has become suddenly modified is
shown by the appearance in mugwump organs
of articles criticising the Presidents course.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

IT is the general superstition that the policy
of presidential administration is shaped by
the President himself The New York Post
Aorrects this idea by explaining that Mr..
C1eveland's '.subordlnates' are really the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

THE Terre Haute Express contributes some
personal facts and observations touching the
street-car System" i'll vogue in this city.
Nowhere in the civilized world would such
outrageous abuses be tolerated, excepting where
the municipal authorities are the absolute
creatures of the company.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21
guilty men

THE engineer of passenger train on the
New York Central road, who was killed in an
accident on Tuesday, could only say before
he expired, "Boys, flag the trains" His last
thoughts were for the safety of others. This
is the stuff that heroes are made of.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

AS near as we get at it, the Interstate
Railway Commission is not in good repute
with certain people, because the members do
not chew and smoke, while in session. and sit
with their feet uptilted to the mantel, while
they spit cheerily in the fireplace. If Judge
Cooley would invite the boys to call him
"Tom," it would meliorate the present strained
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-21

If the city authorities of st. Louis decide
TO have the streets sprinkled at public ex-
pense, the contracts for the work will be let
TO private parties, and several coal dealers,
who wish to utilize their teams in summer,
will become bidders The idea is one which
may be of practical benefit in indianapolis.